The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings / With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency

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From the "Hogarth also was emphatically a people’s painter. He himself frequently asserted that no one was so badly qualified to form a true judgment of pictures as the professed connoisseur; inasmuch as the taste of such was originally formed upon imitations and confined to the styles of masters who had seldom any reference to true nature. Under this conviction Hogarth acted on the reverse of the general principle, and selected his subjects from nature, and for the crowd rather than for the critic. They were explained in that universal language common to the world, rather than in the technica...